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Did I Ever Tell You This?
- Narrated by: Sam Neill
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Campion.
By his own account, his career has been a series of unpredictable turns of fortune. Born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, he emigrated to New Zealand at the age of seven. His family settled in Dunedin on the South Island, but young Sam was sent away to boarding school in Christchurch, where he was hopeless at sports and discovered he enjoyed acting.
But how did you become an actor in New Zealand in the 1960 and 1970s where there was no film industry? After university he made documentary films while also appearing in occasional amateur productions of Shakespeare. In 1977 he took the lead in Sleeping Dogs, the first feature made in New Zealand in more than a decade, a project that led to a major role in Gillian Armstrong's celebrated My Brilliant Career.
And after that Sam Neill found his way, sometimes by accident, into his own brilliant career. He has worked around the world, an actor who has moved effortlessly from blockbuster to art house to TV, from Dr Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park movies to The Piano and Peaky Blinders.
Did I Ever Tell You This? is a joy to listen to, a marvellous and often very funny book, the work of a natural storyteller who is a superb observer of other people, and who writes with love and warmth about his family. It is also his account of his life outside film, especially in Central Otago where he established Two Paddocks, his vineyard famous for its pinot noir.
‘Sam Neill is one of my favourite people in the world, and a great entertainer. Did I Ever Tell You This? is full of warm, funny, and sometimes heartbreaking stories. It will make you feel like you have just sat down under a tree to chat with a dear friend.' JIMMY BARNES
‘Just wonderful, so funny and charming and sharp. Sam Neill's lively, lovely book made me laugh out loud.' MERYL STREEP
‘A fabulously entertaining, insanely readable memoir.' STEPHEN FRY
'DID I EVER TELL YOU THIS? is tender, funny and emotional, modest and generous, both unbearably sad and deliciously companionable.' JANE CAMPION
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- Chris
- 12-05-2023
Fantastic
I am a big Sam Neil fan and it was an absolute delight to listen to this. He is exactly the way I have always pictured him. Looking forward to more Sam!
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- EarthDweller
- 11-04-2023
Great storyteller
Really enjoyed Sam reading this. Loved his impersonations at times as he related people and his range of life he covered. And it is his life. The impacts. The blows. The joys. The unexpected wonders that changed his life.
Great to hear it ending on a high note.
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- Kaye J Misuraca
- 08-04-2023
Laugh and cry
… a trip
Down memory lane of the many fantastic movies this wonderful actor has been involved in …. LOVED this book ! Do your self a favour !!
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- Anonymous User
- 08-04-2023
I couldn’t put it down!
Great having Sam to read this.
A great story teller, sharing heaps of events from his life.
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- J. Greig
- 28-03-2023
Captivating
What an absorbing listen to a life fully lived. The biggest bonus was Sam’s dulcet expressive tones. Stay well Sam. X
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- kerene
- 01-04-2023
I loved it. How could you not?
I think I’ve been in love with Sam Neill for years. His book just confirmed for me that I have impeccable taste in men. My favourite bits were the many times he said “he loved” someone. In fact, he says these words so often that you feel that love right in the core of your very being. Stay well Sam. We need you. Kerene
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- Anonymous User
- 15-04-2023
Down to earth and engaging
We listen to this book on a Sydney to Adelaide road trip and thoroughly enjoyed the story and the heat narration by Sam Neil. We’re disappointed when it ended but happy that we were able to hear his interesting experiences and thoughts. Highly recommended.
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- bethelcallin
- 16-04-2023
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What an enjoyable listen… throughly interesting, lighthearted & funny. Thank you for sharing some of your life. 🚐
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- Maggie
- 24-04-2023
Love you Sam, you won me over as Riley. thankyou.
A true pleasure hearing Sam's interesting book, full of humour and humility. a special man with a successful, interesting and intellectual family.and a good friend to so many. Stay well Sam x
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- Buster Rogers
- 13-12-2023
What a great Story!
I loved listening to this book, especially as it’s Sam telling his own story. What a great bloke! I laughed, cried, laughed some more and all the time could not stop listening. What a great story and life. Well done Sam!
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